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[ronott1]

How do you make Easter eggers?

Easter Eggers are of two types. The First one is from Hatcheries. There have been several imports of Quechas from South America starting in the early 1900s. They are the typical looking chipmonk colored chickens you get from the feed store.

A second group called EEs are actually culls from Ameraucanas, An APA recognized breed. These are sometimes called Non Standard Ameraucanas.

OEs are a cross from a blue or green egg shell layer crossed with a dark egg layer.

 

[Chickengirl1304]

Easter Eggers are of two types. The First one is from Hatcheries. There have been several imports of Quechas from South America starting in the early 1900s. They are the typical looking chipmonk colored chickens you get from the feed store.

A second group called EEs are actually culls from Ameraucanas, An APA recognized breed. These are sometimes called Non Standard Ameraucanas.

OEs are a cross from a blue or green egg shell layer crossed with a dark egg layer.

ok I have my easter eggers (blue eggs) in with my layers and also with the blue egg gene rooster and I was just wondering if the regular brown layers (black sex links) would come out to be easter eggers if i hatched them,

 

[sewandgrow]

ok I have my easter eggers (blue eggs) in with my layers and also with the blue egg gene rooster and I was just wondering if the regular brown layers (black sex links) would come out to be easter eggers if i hatch

They would probably be more of an OE, Olive Egger if you crossed a brown egg laying sex link with a blue egg gene rooster. I get my Oes by covering my Blue Copper Marans girls with my Blue/Black True Ameracuanas.

 

[Audio51]

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Well that's good to know. I am having trouble getting it below about 35% anyway. I'm just waiting to the sun to go down enough to candle, then I will transfer the eggs...

 

[ronott1]

Well that's good to know. I am having trouble getting it below about 35% anyway. I'm just waiting to the sun to go down enough to candle, then I will transfer the eggs...

Traditional incubation is 55% so anything under that is dry hatching.

Humidity is not as important as temperature. We often focus a bit too much on humidity.

 

[Audio51]

i realize chances are slim, but anyone on this list interested in a duckwing marans cockerel? he's big and handsome and incredibly easy-going and mellow -- he's 3.5 months old, and i adore him, but don't have space for a fourth rooster in my little set-up here. here's a few photos taken a couple of weeks ago:




i think he will grow up to be a great flock protector, and no aggression toward people -- if anyone's interested, let me know! i can always take him to the local feedstore, but he's a bit special somehow... would love for him to go to someone who'll appreciate him.

(duckwing marans are apparently VERY rare, although not sure how "established" the coloring is?)

He is handsome...but not roosters for me....

. Hope you find a good home for him...

 

[Audio51]

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Good to know. I don't remember what I had it on for my first attempt but was advised to use the "dry hatch" method which they said was very low humidity until lockdown. I will keep around 40%ish then.....

(Must stop freaking out about every little detail.......Must stop freaking out about every little detail....

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[lizanne]

Hi guys! I had asked this question a few weeks ago but didn't see the answer as it was right around the time I was moving, so I just forgot to check.
I'm looking to buy the following breeds as young chicks or pullets. Preferably as day-old chicks but I can't be too picky.
Anything that lays a VERY dark egg
Anything that lays a colored(preferrably pink or blue) egg
Blue Laced Red Wyandotte

Looking for all girls but I can buy straight run if that's my only option. The BLRW is the most important to me as I've been wanting one for a long time.
Does anyone in or near the Redding or Sacramento areas sell these, or am I going to need to order from a hatchery?

Shoot. I sold my Bantam BLRW pullet this past weekend.

Haven't been a huge fan of the bantam Wyandottes. They seem kind of nervous and skittish to me. Not at all like my LF Wyandotte. I wonder if it's like the teeny designer dogs they make sometimes. It's like the smaller they are, the more nervous. I don't have much experience with bantams, but are they usually just as friendly as the big variety? Maybe mine just didn't like me. My other bantam (a Cochin) isn't as friendly as my standard Cochin either.

 

[Audio51]

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I only have one Banty. She is a Cochin but I think mixed with silkie. Not sure if that influences her personality or not. She has been laying for a while and still has very black comb/wattles. She is a little more skittish than my LF but not bad. She has gone broody and is on ceramic eggs and she is much more verbal when I open the lid to the nest box that the Blue Wyandotte (on real eggs) is.

 

[casportpony]

Here is one of my Modern Game Bantam and her babies, lol.



-Kathy